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Esmeralda
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The tale is written from the perspective of a French tutor who meets with an American family, recently come to Paris after making a fortune in iron. The focus is on the daughter Esmeralda, and her mother's scheming to push the family into Parisian society.
The tale is written from the perspective of a French tutor who meets with an American family, recently come to Paris after making a fortune in iron. The focus is on the daughter Esmeralda, and her mother's scheming to push the family into Parisian society.
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"It is as I said," she whispered. "They are Americans, but of an order entirely new."
Almost the next instant she touched my arm.
"Here is the mother!" she exclaimed. "She is coming this way. See!"
A woman advanced rapidly toward our part of the gallery,—a small, angry woman, with an un graceful figure, and a keen brown eye. She began to speak aloud while still several feet distant from the waiting couple.
"Come along," she said. "I've found a place at last, though I've been all the morning at it,—and the woman who keeps the door speaks English.
"They call 'em," remarked the husband, meekly rising, "con-ser-ges. I wonder why."
The girl rose also, still with her hopeless, abstracted air, and followed the mother, who led the way to t. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
this short story was ok, however I struggled to enjoy the plot and characters. I think too much was crammed in to a few pages and a lot of time the passages added little to the overall story, making this feel rushed
Disappointingly weak short story from the author of The Secret Garden. A French couple gossip about and meet an American family in Paris. The accents grate, the ending is predictable. It's not downright horrible, but there's little to recommend this piece, and it certainly doesn't match Burnett's be
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A short story by Burnett, written in 1877. The tale is written from the perspective of a French tutor who meets with an American family, recently come to Paris after making a fortune in iron. The focus is on the daughter Esmeralda, and her mother's scheming to push the family into Parisian society.
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Short story romance and not on the same level as her classics.
A cute little story set in France - both sad and happy.
a short and pleasant enough read. charming. but not substantial enough.
This is a very short book. Enjoyable, wish it was longer and said what happened to the characters.